Steve Butts Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

News

Major Shake Up at the IGDA as Director Resigns

The International Game Developers Association is “not falling apart, though it may appear to be” according to Director Wendy Despain. After just over ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJuly 23, 2010

Reviews

Review: N3II Ninety-Nine Nights

Let’s separate my own personal prejudices from my harsh opinion of Ninety-Nine Nights 2 (N3 II). I used to be quite the fan ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJuly 20, 2010

Reviews

The Chronicles of Cataclysm: The Curse of the Worgen

I’m not as rabid a fan of World of Warcraft as John Funk or Greg Tito. Nevertheless, when we had a chance to ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJuly 19, 2010

The Game Stash

Game Stash: The Death of PC Gaming

As a lifelong PC gamer and a full time game reviewer since the release of the original Half-Life, there’s almost no issue in ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJuly 14, 2010

Summer Picks 2010

The Escapist Staff’s Summer Picks: Steve

It’s become a tradition here at The Escapist to do a “Five Favorites” roundup at the end of the year, where each of ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJuly 14, 2010

The Game Stash

The Game Stash: Virtual Virtues

As a follow up to last week’s Game Stash, I was going to go into greater detail about the form vs. function disconnect ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJuly 7, 2010

The Game Stash

The Game Stash: A Question of Genre

Hello and welcome to the inaugural edition of The Game Stash. I’ve been at The Escapist for a full four weeks now, and ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJune 30, 2010

Misc

Cash for Developers

Independent developers are, by definition, forced to go it alone. The range of difficulties these developers may encounter, from securing office space to ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJune 29, 2010

Reviews

Preview: Medal of Honor Beta Hands On

Though it seems almost quaint and unoriginal now, I still have vivid memories of the jaw-dropping awesomeness of the Normandy Beach level in ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJune 25, 2010

E3 2010

E3 2010: Steve’s Five Favorite Games

I didn’t realize it at the time, but now that I’m putting it down in words, it occurs to me that this was ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJune 24, 2010

E3 2010

E3 2010: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

CD Projekt has reason to be proud of The Witcher. The studio claims its judgment was called into question for making a game ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJune 23, 2010

E3 2010

E3 2010: Metroid: Other M Hands On

Nintendo’s Metroid: Other M is due out in a couple of months but it was still a hot demo at this year’s E3. ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJune 23, 2010

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